n January 1959, the International Commission of Jurists issued the Declaration of Delhi. This declared that the purpose of all law should be respect for the 'supreme value of human personality', and that the observance should entail certain prerequisites such as the existence of a representative government, respect for basic types of human freedoms, and an independent judiciary. Such a robustly substantive view of the rule of law appears to go much further than weaker, procedural conceptions of the rule of law. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights also demonstrate respect for the rule of law.